301 redirects forwarding the http:// to the http://www is a good idea with any site, but they can be especially important with proxies. This will forward the non-www (http://proxystash.org) version of your site to the www version (http://proxystash.org).

Whether you are building your proxy with long-term goals or with the plan of selling in a few months, this redirection will help you do several things:

* Remove the issue of duplicate pages, as both pages will be exactly the same
* Spread the power of all that ‘link love’ to one place
* Pass PR more easily

So, how do you do it?

All you need to do is construct a simple .htaccess file with this code in your webhosting filemanager, or add this code to your existing .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Remember to change domain.com with your actual domain like this

rewritecond %{http_host} ^proxystash.org [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://proxystash.org/$1 [r=301,nc]

Save the file as .htaccess and upload the file to your site’s root. That’s it, you’re done!

When attempting to optimize your proxy site for the search engines it is important that you use basic and google, search engine optimization techniques. This means that you need to make sure that your title and your meta tags include the keywords that you are targeting. You also want to make sure that they are included in the H1 tags. This is called On site Optimization. When you create copy for your proxy website, it probably won’t be very long or extensive, because essentially you are providing a service and you don’t want to make people read a lot of extra stuff. However, you do want to make sure that your keywords are inserted into the web copy.

Lastly, get links. Successful search engine optimization depends on incoming links. So you want to write articles, get links from social networking sites is very much easy and it gives your proxy huge amount of traffic as nowdays 60-70% members of social networking sites like myspace, facebook, bebo, orkut and others are teenagers who are proxy seekers so by promoting your sites in those sites you will get good traffic, you can also try social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon, del.icio.us, and other sites also gives you a good amount of traffic.

You participate in some three-way link exchanges, add your proxy sites to directories and on popular proxy listing sites. This will ensure not only that you get traffic, but also that you build up those incoming links so you can see your site progress in the search engines. Remember, search engine optimization efforts must be consistent. You can’t only do these things one-time. You have to do this continually because you will be competing against other webmasters who are looking to rocket their proxy sites up the search engines as well.